Beeston Girlguiding

Static site for Beeston Girlguiding Divisions.

To replace website currently at: beestonGirlguiding.org.uk, constructed with BT Community Web Kit.

How?

New website to be made with Hugo Static Site Generator, and hosted on GitHub. This allows for version control as well as a discussion platform for development, questions and changes.

Publishing

Using static pages means that all content pages are written in Markdown (including this one), and a simple readup of the Markdown syntax gets you ready to write and edit content. Most things are written in plaintext. A user-friendly publishing system (that makes GitHub the backend, rather than having to go through commits and pull requests) for blog posts and the like is on its way.

Developing

We are using Hugo to generate a static website. To develop this on your own environment, you need to install the following:

• Hugo (duh)
• Ruby (to get the next thing)
• RubyGems (to get the next thing, again) Then open up your favourite command line interface and run:

  gem install bundle
  bundle install
  compass compile

  If all goes to plan, we can start.

  Starting

  Open up two terminals and run:

  compass watch

  To keep all the stylish things up to date and,

  hugo server -w -D

  To make the website happen.

Hugo will then tell you where the website is, which by default is http://localhost:1313.